Frank Merriwell in Mexico: The Search for the Silver Palace — page 15: what you’re looking at

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FRANK MERRIWELL IN MEXICO, | 18 going to leave you, but we shall see more | wild and reckless young blade, making no ~ of each other, don’t forget that.” jameunt of trouble and worry for his re ‘“(Wait—do not bein a hurry. Iam not) father. satisfied till I—see your face!’ | | Asher Niet well did his best for the i With the final words, Frank made a’ ; boy’ but there was bad blood in the lad’s. - leap and a sweep of his hand, clutching g| veins and it cost the man no small sums . to settle for the various ‘‘sports’’ in which - the white beard the man wore, and tear- ing it from his face! : Carlos participated. . , ‘The beard was false! Finally Carlos took a fancy to strike’ ; The face exposed was smoothly shaved ' out and see the world for himself, and he. and weather-tanned. > : | disappeared without telling ee he : ‘Ha!’ cried Frank, triumphantly. ‘‘I; was going. thought so! This poor old man is Cae After this, he troubled his father at : Merriwell, my villainous cousin!” -. {intervals until he committed a crime in a _ |foreign country, where he was tried, con- . victed, and EID P ISOMER for a long term of © CHAPTER V. | years: KIDNAPED. enemy, although they were blood cousins. | him off without a cent. Carlos was the son of Asher Merriwell, | It was afterward reported that Carl " the brother of Frank’s father. \Durcal had been shot by guards while — At the time of his death Asher Merri-| attempting to escape from prison, and: 2 well was supposed to be a crusty old! Asher Merriwell died firmly believing ~ | bachelor, a man who had never cared for! himself to be sonless. women and had never married. But he| At his death, Asher left ething. oo had not been a -woman-hater all his life, | the son of his brother, Frank Merriwell, | and there was a romance in his career. ‘and provided that Frank should travel . Asher Merriwell had been snared by the wiles of an adventuress, and he had; Scotch, as the eccentric old uncle be- married her. By this woman he had ailieved travel furnished the surest means | son, but the marriage had been kept a for ‘broadening the mind.”’ secret, so that when she deceived him and} But Carlos Merriwell had not been z they quarreled they were able to separate; killed, and he had escaped form prison... and live apart without the fact becoming; Finding he had been cut off without a ~ public that Merriwell had been married. (dollar and everything had been left to - Fortunately the woman died without! Frank, Carlos was furious, and he swore © that his cousin should not live to enjoy — openly proclaiming herself as the wife of Asher Merriwell. In her veins there had | been Spanish blood,and her son was named _ Carlos. . After the death of his wife, Asher | tosee that he might have trouble in proving Merriwell set about providing for and himself the son of Asher Merriwell by a the property. In some wavs Carlos was shrewd; educating the boy, although Carlos con- tinued to bear his mother’s maiden name of Durcal. As Carlos grew up he develeped: into a tempt it. This was the last straw so far as Asher | | Merriwell was concerned, and he straight" ‘Carlos Merriwell was Frank’s deadly | way proceeded to nisoge Carlos and ve ‘under the guardianship of Professor — others he was not. He was shrewd enough 7 lawful marriage, and so he did not at- But there was a still greater stumbling- : block in his way, for if he came out and | connicloooks (CO) in